MUSC 1260 - Piano 1 Credit Hours: 2.00 Prerequisites: None
Piano classes MUSC 1260 and MUSC 1270, each 2 contact hours, are recommended for beginners, elementary education majors, and music majors.
Contact Hours: 2
Center Campus
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe and apply a precise seating posture and hand position at the piano keyboard.
Objectives:
- Describe and apply a seating position that is centered, squared, and properly distanced from the piano keyboard.
- Describe and apply the physical shape of the arm, wrist, hand, and finger positions at the piano keyboard.
- Describe and apply the attack and release of the single finger stroke and release at the piano keyboard.
- Describe and apply the attack and release of consecutive finger strokes at the piano keyboard.
Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to name, define, and read rudimentary music notation.
Objectives:
- Name, define, and identify the keys of the piano and the corresponding location on the grand staff.
- Name, define, and identify the treble and bass clefs, ledger lines, bar lines, and measures.
- Name, define, and identify the time signatures, meters, note values, and rest values.
- Name, define, and identify the key signatures and accidentals.
Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to name, define, and perform technical exercises.
Objectives:
- Name, define, and perform etudes, hands together, with an emphasis on the contraction of the five‐finger hand position.
- Name, define, and perform etudes, hands together, with emphasis on the stretching of the five‐finger hand position.
- Name, define, and perform select single octaves scales, hands together.
- Name, define, and perform select double octave scales, hands together.
Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to name, define, and perform expressive melodies with easy harmonic accompaniments.
Objectives:
- Name, define, and perform songs in contrasting meters and rhythms.
- Name, define, and perform songs in contrasting dynamics and articulations.
- Name, define, and perform songs in different keys and tempos.
- Name, define, and perform songs in keys requiring knowledge of primary triads and dominant seventh chords.
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)
- 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
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- 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
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- The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
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- 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
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- The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
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COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
- Introduction to the Elements of Music
- The piano keyboard and the grand staff
- Clefs
- Ledger line
- Bar lines
- Time signatures, note values, and rest values
- Posture and hand position
- Fingering
- Playing the Piano
- The five‐finger position
- Beginning pieces
- More melodies and folk tunes in the five‐finger position
- Three counts to a measure
- Dotted notes
- Dynamic marks indicating a gradual change in the degree of power
- Introduction to accidentals
- Major Scales and Etudes
- The thumb
- Hand contraction
- Practicing scales Shifting hand positions and related fingering patterns
- Six counts to a measure
- A note about fingering
- New hand position in the key of G
- Theory and Use of Chords
- Songs with easy accompaniments
- Primary Triads
- Primary Triads with seventh chords and inversions
Primary Faculty Cook, Thomas Secondary Faculty Associate Dean Ternullo, Annette Dean Pritchett, Marie
Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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